There Are Tough Players And Nice Guys,

In Chess So Much Depends On Opening Theory, So The Champions Before The Last Century Did Not Know As Much As I Do And Other Players Do About Opening Theory. So If You Just Brought Them Back From The Dead They Wouldn't Do Well. They'd Get Bad Openings.

Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi Have Absolutely Destroyed Chess By Their Immoral, Unethical, Prearranged Games. These Guys Are Really The Lowest Dogs Around, And If People Knew The Truth About Them, They Would Be Held In More Contempt Than Ben Johnson, The Runner, And They're Going To Know The Truth When I Do This Book!

Americans Really Don't Know Much About Chess. But I Think When I Beat Spassky, That Americans Will Take A Greater Interest In Chess. Americans Like Winners.

Alekhine Developed As A Player Much More Slowly Than Most. In His Twenties, He Was An Atrocious Chessplayer, And Didn't Mature Until He Was Well Into His Thirties.

It's The Fault Of The Chess Players Themselves. I Don't Know What They Used To Be, But Now They're Not The Most Gentlemanly Group. When It Was A Game Played By The Aristocrats It Had More Like You Know Dignity To It. When They Used To Have The Clubs, Like No Women Were Allowed And Everybody Went In Dressed In A Suit, A Tie, Like Gentlemen, You Know. Now, Kids Come Running In Their Sneakers. Even In The Best Chess Club-and They Got Women In There. It's A Social Place And People Are Making Noise, It's A Madhouse.